It is rather surprising that despite the ease of obtaining a rectal biopsy and considerable experience of this technique which exist in the routine diagnosis of neoplastic lesions in the rectum, it is only over the last two decades that its application in inflammatory lesions of the colon and rectum has become popular. As amoebiasis is very common in Madras, it had become a necessity to exclude...

Secnidazole is structurally related to the commonly used 5-nitroimidazoles metronidazole and tinidazole. These drugs share a common spectrum of activity against anaerobic micro-organisms and they appear particularly effective in the treatment of amoebiasis, giardiasis, trichomoniasis and bacterial vaginosis. Secnidazole is rapidly and completely absorbed after oral administration and has a long...

Although an infection with Entamoeba histolytica is most commonly asympto-matic, the potential for invasive, metastatic disease, coupled with its high prevalence , makes amoebiasis a major health problem throughout much of the world. Most amoebiasis-related mortality stems from extra-intestinal infection. In these cases, trophozoites penetrate the epithelial layer and lamina propria of the bowe...

A 41-year-old male was admitted to the hospital with symptoms of diarrhea, fever and rapidly progressive respiratory distress. A chest radiograph and computed tomography (CT) of the chest and the abdomen showed a large amount of right pleural effusion and a large liver abscess. The patient was thus diagnosed to have amoebic colitis, amoebic liver abscess and amoebic empyema complicated with an ...

Amoebiasis is the third leading cause of death due to a parasitic infection in the world after malaria and schistosomiasis [1]. The pleuropulmonary localization is the second most common extra-intestinal expression after liver damage [1]. The direct pulmonary Entamoeba histolytica infestation is less common than secondary form called “neighborhood” reaction [2]. The authors propose to report a ...